[5/10/19 – Welcome MCAE Network attendees. Here are links to resources mentioned in the session: Get Them Reading
Detail will continue to be added over the next week or two. Note that there may be additional articles posted on this blog that you may find useful – such as those tagged as “Reading” related. We welcome your suggestions or questions. Bob]
- Leveled Reading with Class Support
- Simple free reading/listening
- Dreamreader
- Lots of useful articles for reading practice, with human-voiced audio, comprehension quiz, and vocabulary worksheet
- Hasn’t been updated since December, 2018
- ELLLO.org
- Dreamreader
- Finding/Choosing Books
- Get/Keep Free or Inexpensive Books
- Printed Books
- Yard Sales
- Library Book Sales (e.g. Framingham, Boston )
- Thriftbooks.com (free shipping if you spend $10) and other used book sellers including Amazon
- eBooks
- on Barnes & Noble (reading with Nook or Nook app)
- on Amazon (reading on Kindle or Kindle app)
- Amazon Top 100 Free eBooks
- Amazon Limited-Time-Offer eBooks
- Hundred Zeroes
- Video Lesson: How to listen to Kindle eBooks using iPhone/iPad VoiceOver accessibility feature
(Similar capability with most Android phones using TalkBack accessibility feature)
- Bookbub
- Printed Books
- Borrow eBooks, audiobooks and other digital media through your library
- Libby
- App available for iPhone/iPad; Android, and more
- Also available for use in a web browser
- OverDrive.com
- Also available as an app for several types of mobile devices
- Hoopla
- Kanopy
- Streaming movies with separate areas for adults and kids
- Some libraries (including Framingham) allow for unlimited plays of storybooks and other videos on Kanopy Kids
- Tumblebooks
- RBDigital
- and more
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Check your own library’s website to see which online resources they offer
You can usually find out in Google.
For example, Google: Natick Library digital books
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Anyone who lives in Massachusetts can also get a free eCard from Boston Public Library that entitles you to access most of their online resources.
- Libby
- Tools to evaluate or adjust reading levels
- Lots of Good Stories
- TED
- Transcripts for each video
- Subtitles often in many languages
- TEDxESL – Leveled lesson plans built around some TED talks
- StoryCorps
- The Moth
- The Change Agent
- Humans of New York
- TED
- Extensive Reading
- Read for Pleasure, Read for Success (MCAE 2017 conference presentation)